Bars & Breweries

Uchib? sends us home with a ginny concoction, Commons Club gives us a pickled brunch delight, and The People’s Last Stand schools is in cocktail making.

Stay a while at Open Palette, have a marg in a can by the pool, or make a cocktail to save the bees!

More than two years ago, we were writing about how one of the hottest brewers of Deep Ellum Brewing Co. left to go “gypsy.” It was then that we got to taste the work of Barrett Tillman in his very own brews under the label BlackMan Brewing, commonly from bottles…

Here’s a roundup what you should be sipping on for the week—one to enjoy on-location, one to-go, and one that you can make at home!

Courtney Luscher could’ve relaxed with husband Brian Luscher after they closed The Grape Restaurant in East Dallas. She did for a bit, but then she got back to work: This week, the sommelier launched The Lusch List, a newsletter and blog designed to give people curated lists of wine they should…

The first time I met John Reardon, founder of Deep Ellum Brewing Co., was in the summer of 2011. It was a hot, bright day, and he was balanced atop a giant wooden spool outside his brewery, drenched in sweat, shirt off, headphones on. While in the midst of building…

Before now, the televisions were dark, the patios were deserted, the mason jars sat empty and the regulars stayed home. That all changed Friday. Stan’s Blue Note, the Lower Greenville Avenue staple that opened in 1952, is welcoming customers again. Mid-August, Mike McRae, the proprietor of Stan’s, which is one…

The Machete cocktail from Mexican Sugar is a spicy and refreshing summer sipper.

With more than 200 people on the call, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission held an emergency Zoom webinar at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday to pass three amendments to regulations that clear a path for bars to reopen under Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency order restricting their operations during the pandemic. TABC presiding officer…

The Paradiso Cocktail employs some unique flavors that happen to blend nicely to beg a double take from your taste buds.

Last September, which seems like a lifetime ago, things were looking good for the craft beer industry in Dallas.  Selling beer to-go was finally legal, and beer drinkers were ready for it. In the past 10 years, the number of brewers in North Texas has grown from two to around…

Little Red Wasp in Downtown Fort Worth is trying to take the sting out of bars being closed by offering a delicious dine-in and to-go option in their Wasp’s Knees with Zephyr Gin and raspberry habanero honey.

Every month or so, we like to take a citywide inventory of beer, and to our amazing fortune, our local brewers have been busy. So, as we round the final corner of summer, let’s take a look at some new brews.  Lakewood Brewing Co. has a special taproom release Friday:…

Although her face was covered by her mask, Natasha DeHart’s eyes showed how she felt. The message on the mask says the rest: Get Bendt. On the day the second shutdown in Texas was announced, she “was at about a 10-out-of-10 anger level all day,” she says. DeHart is the…

Just two weeks before the ninth annual Big Texas Beer Fest’s scheduled date of March 27, Chad and Nellie Montgomery, the husband-and-wife team who founded the event, postponed it until July. They didn’t know at the time that it was the first of many challenges they’d face trying to run…

It was an audacious move, honestly. Luring pandemic-weary citizens with Flamin’ Hot Cheetos beer and corn dogs at noon on a Wednesday, during prime Zoom call time. Regardless, Martin House Brewing Co. in Fort Worth was up to more of their creative shenanigans with the release of Fiery Crunchy Cheesie…

If you’ve have any type of vested interest in a bar, either as a gin and tonic aficionado or stockholder, then that pain you feel in your neck isn’t a weird symptom you need to Google. Rather, it’s whiplash from trying to keep up with codes, compliance and protocol changes…

Perry’s take on a Godfather cocktail will have you saying, “Leave the gun, take the cocktail.”

About a decade ago, the local craft brewing scene ignited like a flambé, and it hasn’t simmered down much since. It was only in 2011 that both Deep Ellum and Peticolas brewing companies poured their first pints.  According to the Brewers Association, in that year there were 59 craft breweries…

Legal Draft Beer Co. in Arlington has opened its taproom and patio, despite executive order GA-28 from June 26, which required all bars and breweries to close.  Earlier this week in a post to their Facebook page, and several times since, they’ve explained their plans, starting with “Let’s hope this…

Las Almas Rotas dressed up the alley next to their bar to offer guests to-go food and drinks.

Cane Rosso’s London Spritz is a necessity for refreshment this summer.